"In the forest, we never easily spot the animals, we notice them by the tracks they leave, or by catching a glimpse of them. Above all, we hear them. Bernie Krause’s work gives us access to this thousand-year-old— - yet still contemporary —experience, which is that of the forest hunters. He reveals a world we no longer know, a world in which anthropocentrism and its industrial background noise aren’t predominant. I discovered this with the Yanomami. At few times On a number of occasions, I spent the night with the hunters, listening to the sounds of the forest. They described to me how some amphibian, or bird, or mammal or insect was joining the chorus, exactly like in Bernie Krause’s soundscapes. Meeting with him brought me the necessary concepts to reconsider this experience in the forest, to which I hadn’t paid much attention to at the time. Through technological means, Bernie Krause reinvents for us a form of listening that is humankind’s most ancient experience—now lost to us."
Bruce Albert, Anthropologist
Find also several recent articles by Bruce Albert, published on Le Monde.fr, bringing up the helplessness experienced by the Native American communities in face of the health crisis.
→ Covid-19: Lessons From the Yanomami
→ Coronavirus : « Les Amérindiens ont compris que les Blancs ne peuvent rien pour eux »
→ Face au coronavirus, « nous sommes tous devenus amérindiens ! »
